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719-What A Night(505)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artist's Conception Benu and Asteroids, Credit: NASA

To give you an idea of the celestial traffic in our neighborhood, on a recent clear night, using our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, my C...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WTIP, KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio and more

698-Aliens?(484)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Planetary Alignment over Australian Radio Telescope, Credit: Graeme L. White & Glen Cozens (James Cook University)

Most Astronomers find it hard to believe that given perhaps a trillion planets in the Milky Way alone that our Earth is the only one which hosts li...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more

619-Apophis Campaign

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception Apophis, Credit: Dan Durda – FIAAA

Currently scientists, governments, and private citizens are preparing to mitigate a disaster caused by a large incoming space rock. To test techn...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, KSFR, WTIP, KGLP and more

613-Climate Change and Telescopes

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Recently, in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Faustine Cantalloube of the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy released...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP and more

612-Day and Night

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Most life on Earth is synchronized to the regular cycles of day and night. Until about a hundred years ago, the natural night sky was familiar to ...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP and more

597-Aging Satellites

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

If we don't place some new space weather observing satellites into orbit it is possible that you will wake up one day to no electricity, no cell p...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WTIP and more

Thank you Bernie. Screw You, New York Times

From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary

The F-Word is features timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. The latest: "It is the essence of American liberalism to trash radical ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

Water Politics in War

From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing

Life in war torn regions of Afghanistan are bad enough for the communities but it can become even more hopeless when the water runs out.

The Man Who Put the 'P' in NPR

From: Radio Diaries

One of the best mission statements I’ve read is the original NPR mission, which was written in 1969 by Bill Siemering. Bill is an amazing guy who, ...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix

#709- "The ins and outs the causes of terrorism"

From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum

Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti

Be careful when stigmatizing certain groups for terrorism: Rights may be trampled. The objective take on this ugly side of man and why we should no...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KCMJ Community Radio

Football: Soon to be History?

From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself

In this episode we break down the factors that will influence the fate of football in the United States. Is football doomed or is it immune to the ...

Sex Machines in Our History

From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself

Steam-powered vibrators the size of kitchen tables, the importance of dildos in Ancient Greece, and the future of sex machines in the second instal...

Everybody disagrees on how to solve San Francisco’s affordable housing crisis

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: San Francisco's housing is becoming increasingly unaffordable. Micah Weinberg, of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, says that over the past seven years, "we have built less than half of the housing in this region that the state estimates we need., Credit: flickr user Jeremy Brooks

In one of America's most expensive cities, there's a fringe political party whose name sums up their concerns: The Rent is Too Damn High. That city...

Bought by PRX Remix

How the prodigal son became a preacher

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - San Quentin Prison Report

Caption: Derrick Holloway serves as an inmate preacher in San Quentin State Prison., Credit: Nigel Poor

Derrick Holloway grew up in a Christian family, but chose to sell drugs and participate in a lifestyle that resulted in him committing a murder. Af...

A runner's high in prison

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - San Quentin Prison Report

Chris Schumacher may be serving a life sentence, but when he runs, he feels a sense of freedom. Once an addict, he now finds that exercise can curb...

Learning from the Uncivilized

From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself

We tend to view our hunter-gatherer ancestors with pity for their primitive ways. But what if they employ strategies for leading a depression-free ...

Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2011 Year in Review

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

A look back at some of the most important issues of 2011: Attacks on organized labor, the Egyptian revolution, and the struggle to address climate ...

Bought by KHNS, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMUN

Fear and Courage at Work

From: The Drucker Institute
Series: Drucker on the Dial

Host Phalana Tiller talks with author Tom Rieger about his new book, Breaking the Fear Barrier. She also interviews Thomas Tighe, president and CEO...